An ambitious project to collect data on the reef fish community structure along the whole of East Africa’s coast aims to provide a baseline understanding to underpin and inform future conservation efforts.

A study on sound recordings of reef noise from different habitats has revealed that the highest quality reefs are also the noisiest, potentially attracting more larval recruits using sound to orient towards reefs

Research into changing Red Sea coral and its effects on the butterflyfish found increased feeding rates, aggressive encounters and territory sizes where there was lower coral cover, which could be an informative bio-indicator